God

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I gaze up into the starry night sky, curiously watching as orbs and bright white flashes of light whiz by, awestruck by the constellations that dance in the moonlight beams, rejuvenating in a mysterious fashion. Suddenly, my cheeks felt damp, and I noticed a warm trickle of salty water rolling down its circular mass. My gramp’s up there, I recollect through the tears, and instant flashes of his body lying so still, so peacefully, and so empty on his favorite creaky wooden rocking chair pass by. As I bask in my melancholy thoughts, a new one burst the bubble holding together the collection of past memories.

Where really did old’ gramps go? Some say heaven, some say the afterlife, but one word seems to reign popular amongst the people who answer this question: God. As a Hindu, my religion talks of God from a solemn, polytheistic perspective. God apparently comes in many forms, as a flying Monkey who possesses the power of a million men, or a mighty elephant with an appetite so large he can consume a preposterous quantity of food without emitting even a single belch. Others, from the Catholic perspective shower tails of his righteousness, posing him as a holy being who gave birth to Jesus, the savior of their land. But one trait stays true to almost all of these perspectives. God is almighty, a saving grace, and a force to not be reckoned with, rather worshipped.

But with hardly any proof, any evidence, and any sightings, and multilateral standpoints on this extremely philosophical issue, how do we know for sure? Well, if we were to take a look at this from a non-aesthetic and non-religious point of view, we start to unravel some rather queer truths. You see, God created the universe, and thus all of humanity and nature along with it. But scientists state otherwise. The Big Bang Theory, a scientific method consisting of eons of research about the natural gasses formed over trillions of years of carbonating, forming together to finally create what we have today, is a belief shared by millions of people. So what? Did God let one rip and in turn make the entirety of the universe? Or is there a deeper meaning to Him?

 

To answer this, we must backtrack to the most basic of questions. What is God? If he takes multiple forms, and in turn, no forms, then he can’t be any substantial form at all. He is an energy, and simply dubbed the name “God” by us common men. God is the willpower that drives us to pass an impossible test, and also the lack of that leads to daily failure at an exponential rate. He is a spark that causes millions of new beings to arrive into the planet every day, and also the falter of human life, like a mass power outage of His own creation, and death Himself. So God can be this all powerful being that splits mountains in half and carves canyons out of water. He can also be worse, much, much worse. God is the energy that is in everything, every person, every being, every creature, and even every inanimate object. And thus it is the worship of God, not God Himself, and the unrelenting belief in this energy that surges through the galaxy, that makes God as powerful as he is.